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MindManager for Software Development: Part 2 - Requirements Gathering
07 November 06 02:38 PM | Michael S. Scherotter | 4 Comments   

One of the unintended consequences of using MindManager throughout Mindjet's internal software development lifecycle is that the product has turned out to be a great requirements gathering solution. At Mindjet, we use MindManager for developing marketing requirements, organizing product planning, writing software specifications, and orchestrating an extreme programming methodology. Though it was never designed to be a software requirements gathering solution, we have, as well as many of our customers, seen it to be a fantastic one. We even won Jolt and Codie awards competing agains software development applications. I would like to walk you through a scenario of how you might use MindManager to do this. Read More...

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Michael Michaelis's Essential C# (with maps) Featured on MSDN
31 October 06 12:58 PM | Michael S. Scherotter | 1 Comments   

If you are developing software on the Microsoft Windows Platforms, you probably are using Microsoft Visual Studio. One of the features Visual Studio 2005, is a start page that you see whenever you start the application; On this start page are a number Read More...

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MindManager for Software Development: Part 1 - Help Authoring
07 October 06 10:01 PM | Michael S. Scherotter | 1 Comments   

... When we were writing the Map Editing with Microsoft Office Word 2007 add-in I wanted to include a help file to guide people through using it and understanding how it can be extended. Of all the help file formats my favorite has always been the Compiled Help File (CHM) file. It is fast, compressed, uses standard content (HTML), searchable, and indexable - all the things that you want in a help system. Better yet, Microsoft supplies a tool to make the files as a free download. ... Read More...

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